Strings for a newbie

[bruno modulix]

Malcolm Wooden wrote:
> I'm trying to get my head around Python but seem to be failing miserably. I 
> use RealBasic on a Mac and find it an absolute dream! But Python....UGH!

Strange enough, Rb was one of my first languages, and last time I played
with it, I founhd it was close to a nightmare when compared to Python...

> 
> I want to put a sentence of words into an array, eg "This is a sentence of 
> words"
> 
> In RB it would be simple:
> 
> Dim s as string
> Dim a(-1) as string
> Dim i as integer
> 
> s = "This is a sentence of words"
> For i = 1 to CountFields(s," ")
>   a.append NthField(s," ",i)
> next
> 
> That's it an array a() containing the words of the sentence.

<sarcastic>
Ho, yes, so simple... only seven lines...
</sarcastic>

> Now can I see how this is done in Python? - nope!

Why not ?

a = "This is a sentence of words".split()

Now *this* is simplicity, my friend...

> UGH!
>
> Malcolm
> (a disillusioned Python newbie) 
> 
So I'll leave you to your disi^M^M^Mdelusion...

-- 
bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'onurb at xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"